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Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 9)
The Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 9), also called the Artaxerxes III Chronicle, is a fragmentary Late Babylonian tablet recording prisoners taken from Sidon in 345 BC.
Babylonian Chronicles
The Babylonian Chronicles are Akkadian cuneiform tablets recording Babylonian history year by year, mostly held in the British Museum, from the eighth century BCE to the Hellenistic period.
Babylonian King List A
Babylonian King List A is a damaged cuneiform tablet listing the kings of Babylonia and their regnal years, from the First Dynasty down to Kandalanu.
Babylonian Map of the World
The Babylonian Map of the World, or Imago Mundi, is a clay tablet in the British Museum bearing the oldest known world map, centered on Babylon.
Babylonian religion
Babylonian religion: the polytheistic cult system of ancient southern Mesopotamia, centered on Marduk of Babylon and the Esagila temple, its creation epic Enuma Elish, and its continuity under Persian and Hellenistic rule.
Babylonian star-catalogues
The Babylonian star-catalogs are systematic lists of stars and constellations compiled in ancient Mesopotamia, best known through the two-tablet compendium MUL.APIN, composed before about 750 BC.
Babylonian Theodicy
The Babylonian Theodicy is an Akkadian acrostic dialogue poem in which a sufferer debates divine justice with a friend who defends worship of the gods.
Babylonian–Assyrian War of 1235 BC
The Babylonian–Assyrian War of 1235 BC, also called the Babylonian-Assyrian War of 1235 BCE, was the war in which Tukulti-Ninurta I of Assyria defeated Kaštiliaš IV of Babylon and conquered the city of Babylon.
Bahdi-Lim
Bahdi-Lim (Bahdī-Lim) was prefect of the palace of Mari, administering the city for King Zimri-Lim around 1775–1761 BCE; his 80 letters were published in 1954.
Bala taxation
The bala, Sumerian for 'rotation', was the Ur III tax system in which southern Mesopotamian provinces paid rotating monthly dues of grain, livestock, and labor.
Balasi
Balasi was an Assyrian court astrologer and scholar of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the 7th century BC, who became the personal teacher of the crown prince Ashurbanipal and is known from letters found at Nineveh.
Balawat Gates
The Balawat Gates, also called the Gates of Balawat, are embossed bronze bands from palace doors at Balawat, Iraq, made under kings Ashurnasirpal II and Shalmaneser III in the 9th century BC.
Balih
Balih (Baliḥ) is a legendary king of Kish named in the Sumerian King List, where he appears as the son and successor of Etana with a reign of 400 years.
Balulu
Balulu was, per the Sumerian King List, the fourth and last king of the First Dynasty of Ur, credited with a 36-year reign in the mid-25th century BC.
Banquet of Ashurnasirpal II
The Banquet of Ashurnasirpal II was the ten-day inaugural feast the Assyrian king held at his rebuilt capital Kalhu in 879 BCE, feeding 69,574 guests, as recorded on his Banquet Stele.
Banquet Stele of Ashurnasirpal II
The Banquet Stele of Ashurnasirpal II, also called Banquet Stela, is a sandstone stele from Nimrud recording a ten-day banquet for 69,574 guests around 879 BC.
Bara-irnun
Bara-irnun, also spelled Bara-irnum or Barag-irnun, was a queen consort of Umma in Sumer around 2370 BC, wife of the ruler Gishakidu and known from a gold votive plaque in the Louvre.
Barsal-nuna
Barsal-nuna is a legendary ruler of the First Dynasty of Kish in the Sumerian King List, which assigns him a 1,200-year reign and no contemporary inscriptions.
Barton Cylinder
The Barton Cylinder is a clay cylinder from Nippur, Iraq, inscribed with a unique Sumerian cosmogonic narrative, dated to about 2500 to 2340 BC and held in the Penn Museum.
Bārû
The bārû was a Mesopotamian diviner-priest who ascertained the will of the gods by extispicy, reading the entrails, above all the liver, of a sacrificed sheep.
Bārûtu
Bārûtu, "The Art of the Diviner", is a first-millennium BC Akkadian scholarly series on extispicy, divination from sheep entrails, with ten chapters and some 8,000 omens.
Bassetki Statue
The Bassetki Statue is a copper statue base bearing an Old Akkadian inscription of Naram-Sin of Agade, found at Bassetki, ancient Mardaman, in northern Iraq.
Battle between Lagash and Umma
The battle between Lagash and Umma, also called the battle of the Gu'edena, was a mid-25th-century BC victory of Eannatum of Lagash over neighboring Umma, commemorated on the Stele of the Vultures.
Battle between Utu-hengal and Tirigan
The battle between Utu-hengal and Tirigan was the campaign in which Utu-hegal, king of Uruk, defeated Tirigan, last king of the Gutians, in southern Mesopotamia around 2120 BC.
Battle of Arpad (754 BC)
The Battle of Arpad in 754 BC was a defeat of Assyria's Aššur-nerari V by Urartu's Sarduri II, fought in the territory of Arpad in northern Syria.
Battle of Arrapha
The Battle of Arrapha was a battle fought in 616 BC at Madanu near modern Kirkuk, Iraq, where Nabopolassar of Babylon defeated the Assyrian army and captured its chariots and horses.
Battle of Carchemish
The Battle of Carchemish, also called the Battle of Karkemish, was fought in 605 BC at Carchemish on the Euphrates, where Babylon under crown prince Nebuchadnezzar II destroyed an Egyptian army under Pharaoh Necho II.
Battle of Der
The Battle of Der (Battle of Dēr) was fought in 720 BC at Der, east of Babylon, between Sargon II of Assyria and an Elamite army under Humban-nikash.
Battle of Dhat Irq
The Battle of Dhat Irq was a desert plundering raid launched by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylonia against Arab tribes in 599/598 BC, recorded in the Babylonian Chronicle.
Battle of Diyala River
A 693 BC battle near Nippur in southern Babylonia where Sennacherib's Assyrian army defeated Babylonian forces under Nergal-ušezib, aided by Elamite troops, and captured their king.